Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91905, Israel.
Child Abuse Negl. 2021 Dec;122:105325. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105325. Epub 2021 Sep 14.
Child sexual abuse (CSA) by authority figures in a religious community (AFRCs) has been studied extensively among the Catholic clergy, and to a limited extent among Orthodox Jewish communities in the United States and Australia. However, less attention has been devoted to the phenomenon within the Israeli context.
This article examines the perceptions of survivors within the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Israel of their relationships with authority figures in the community who sexually abused them.
21 in-depth interviews were conducted with men who were abused by authority figures within ultra-Orthodox institutions, which were analyzed based on a thematic approach (Braun & Clarke, 2006).
The results indicated that in childhood, almost none of the participants recognized that they were sexually abused. Their relationships with the authority figures were instead perceived as one of four variations: (1) normative-educative; (2) mutual; (3) an episode in a hypersexual routine; or (4) abusive punitive. Perceptions later shifted, mostly in adulthood, towards a recognition of the sexual abuse and its personal consequences.
The findings stress the importance of contextual factors (such as perceptions of sexuality, community structures, and cultural norms) in how ultra-Orthodox children experience abuse by authority figures in the community and its aftermath, with implications for successful prevention and intervention efforts.
在宗教社区中，权威人士对儿童的性虐待（CSA）已在天主教神职人员中进行了广泛研究，并在一定程度上在美国和澳大利亚的东正教社区中进行了研究。然而，对于以色列国内的这种现象，关注较少。
本文考察了以色列极端正统犹太社区中幸存者对与在社区中对他们进行性虐待的权威人士之间关系的看法。
对 21 名在极端正统机构中被权威人士虐待的男性进行了深入访谈，这些访谈基于主题方法进行了分析（Braun 和 Clarke，2006）。
结果表明，在童年时期，几乎没有参与者认识到自己受到性虐待。他们与权威人士的关系被视为以下四种变化之一：（1）规范教育；（2）相互；（3）过度性行为中的一个插曲；或（4）虐待性惩罚。后来的看法大多在成年后发生转变，对性虐待及其个人后果有了认识。
这些发现强调了背景因素（如对性的看法、社区结构和文化规范）在极端正统派儿童如何体验社区中权威人士的虐待及其后果方面的重要性，这对成功的预防和干预工作具有重要意义。
